After just one night at the Bearded Monkey hostel in Granada we decided to skip the city and head to the island of Ometepe.

The massive Lago Ometepe, is somewhat reminiscent of Lake Iliamna in Alaska. Stretching roughly 20 miles long and 6 miles wide. In the center of the lake lies an island with two volcanos, one of which is active. Volcan Concepcion is considered active and had erupted with the latest eruption in 2005. The other volcano, Maderas, is considered dormant, but has a lagun on top which feeds a gigantic waterfall.
I don't recall the name of the "ferry" we took to the island, but it was similar to the USS minot. It ran a wopping 3knots an hour and had the seaworthiness of a rubber duck. The wind was howling which created 4ft to 5ft waves and an even tipsier boat to say the least. Not long after, 1.5 hours or so, did we finally land to find 10 taxi cab drivers asking if we needed transportation. We had a few ideas about where we wanted to go, but realized that we just needed to go to a hostel and check in. We made our way to the east side of the lake where the wind was relentless at 25knots or so. The water was warm so Derek and Mike took a dip as soon as they made it over. That night around 7 or so, thousands if not millions of mosquitos swarmed the living quarters where we were staying. Oddly enough they only lasted for an hour or so.

The next day Ari, Michael and Derek were behind the handlbars of some kick asphalt 125 enduros. We made a $25 day rental into a $1000 ride, up and down and all around the island, no breaks except at Volcan Maderas's waterfall. We definitaly had the best tour of all, because the amount of area we covered.

Warning! Savages are closer than they appear




The next day we decided that two nights on the island was good enough for us, so we jumped on the only bus running that day. The waves were calling us, so onto San Juan Del Sur we went.